Business Change and Transformation Recruitment Consultant
Are you a driven recruitment professional with a proven track record in professional services, technology, or transformation markets? We're looking for an experienced consultant to join our specialist Change & Transformation practice one of the most active and fastest-growing desks in our London office. The information below covers the role requirements, expected candidate experience, and accompanying qualifications.
We partner with finance, technology, and operations leaders across the UK to deliver proven transformation talent fast. Whether our clients are upgrading systems, integrating post-M&A, or delivering ERP at scale, they come to us when internal teams are stretched and specialist skills are critical.
About the Practice Our Change & Transformation desk operates at the sharp end of major business-critical programmes. We recruit both interim and permanent talent across the full spectrum of transformation disciplines placing specialists who deliver real change into organisations undergoing some of the most complex and high-value projects in their history.
Our placement remit spans:
Business change and programme management (PMO, Programme Directors, Change Managers)
ERP and systems implementation (SAP, Oracle, Workday, Dynamics)
Post-merger integration and operating model redesign
Finance and technology transformation across FTSE, PE-backed, and public sector clients
Digital transformation, process improvement, and organisational change
The Role As a Senior Consultant, you will own and develop client relationships within your chosen vertical, running a full 360 desk or focusing on business development, depending on your strengths and experience. You'll work alongside a team of senior consultants and directors who are experts in their markets and who understand how to win and retain enterprise-level clients.
Day to day, you will:
Build and manage relationships with senior hiring stakeholders CPOs, CFOs, CTOs, and Heads of Change across corporate and professional services organisations
Develop a pipeline of high-quality interim and permanent candidates within the transformation market
Run end-to-end assignments: scoping, search, shortlisting, and offer management
Contribute to business development through targeted outreach, networking, and market insight
Work collaboratively with the wider team to deliver on retained and contingency mandates
Represent the business at industry events, roundtables, and client briefings
What We're Looking For Essential:
Minimum 3 years' recruitment experience, ideally within change, transformation, technology, or professional services markets
A demonstrable track record of billing consistently and managing your own desk
Strong relationship-building skills with the confidence to engage at senior and C-suite level
Experience placing interim and/or permanent professionals into complex organisations
Commercial acumen and the drive to develop and grow a market
Desirable:
Knowledge of business change disciplines PMO, business analysis, programme delivery, ERP and the talent landscape that supports them
Experience working on retained or exclusive mandates
An existing network within finance, technology, or operations hiring communities
What We Offer We're an established agency with a genuine specialism not a generalist firm trying to cover every sector. xkybehq That means credibility with clients, a warm desk with live mandates, and the infrastructure to support your success.
Competitive base salary (dependent on experience) with a high-earning, uncapped commission structure
Hybrid working central London office with flexibility
A structured onboarding programme and ongoing L&D investment
Clear and transparent career progression to Principal, Associate Director, and beyond
A collaborative, high-performance culture with low staff turnover
Access to a well-established client portfolio, market data, and research support
We partner with finance, technology, and operations leaders across the UK to deliver proven transformation talent fast. Whether our clients are upgrading systems, integrating post-M&A, or delivering ERP at scale, they come to us when internal teams are stretched and specialist skills are critical.
About the Practice Our Change & Transformation desk operates at the sharp end of major business-critical programmes. We recruit both interim and permanent talent across the full spectrum of transformation disciplines placing specialists who deliver real change into organisations undergoing some of the most complex and high-value projects in their history.
Our placement remit spans:
Business change and programme management (PMO, Programme Directors, Change Managers)
ERP and systems implementation (SAP, Oracle, Workday, Dynamics)
Post-merger integration and operating model redesign
Finance and technology transformation across FTSE, PE-backed, and public sector clients
Digital transformation, process improvement, and organisational change
The Role As a Senior Consultant, you will own and develop client relationships within your chosen vertical, running a full 360 desk or focusing on business development, depending on your strengths and experience. You'll work alongside a team of senior consultants and directors who are experts in their markets and who understand how to win and retain enterprise-level clients.
Day to day, you will:
Build and manage relationships with senior hiring stakeholders CPOs, CFOs, CTOs, and Heads of Change across corporate and professional services organisations
Develop a pipeline of high-quality interim and permanent candidates within the transformation market
Run end-to-end assignments: scoping, search, shortlisting, and offer management
Contribute to business development through targeted outreach, networking, and market insight
Work collaboratively with the wider team to deliver on retained and contingency mandates
Represent the business at industry events, roundtables, and client briefings
What We're Looking For Essential:
Minimum 3 years' recruitment experience, ideally within change, transformation, technology, or professional services markets
A demonstrable track record of billing consistently and managing your own desk
Strong relationship-building skills with the confidence to engage at senior and C-suite level
Experience placing interim and/or permanent professionals into complex organisations
Commercial acumen and the drive to develop and grow a market
Desirable:
Knowledge of business change disciplines PMO, business analysis, programme delivery, ERP and the talent landscape that supports them
Experience working on retained or exclusive mandates
An existing network within finance, technology, or operations hiring communities
What We Offer We're an established agency with a genuine specialism not a generalist firm trying to cover every sector. xkybehq That means credibility with clients, a warm desk with live mandates, and the infrastructure to support your success.
Competitive base salary (dependent on experience) with a high-earning, uncapped commission structure
Hybrid working central London office with flexibility
A structured onboarding programme and ongoing L&D investment
Clear and transparent career progression to Principal, Associate Director, and beyond
A collaborative, high-performance culture with low staff turnover
Access to a well-established client portfolio, market data, and research support